Drown
Pronunciation : Drown
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
Definition : Defn: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.
i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Drown
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.
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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913